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Dear friends,<br>
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First of all, now it is my turn to express thanks: To Celso for
his extraordinary fast and extremely practical proposal for a
CRITICS netvibe! As usual, he is much too modest: As it is the
site is already very complete, with many useful links, and ready
to receive more content that may be useful to all of us - as well
as our students. <br>
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Celso was so kind as to offer the whole setup for me to take over,
but as I mentioned earlier, I simply am overburdened with urgent
other work (the journals, various websites, PhDs, my own research
-- for which I have less and less time) and right now the setting
up of a new master program (in Spanish) for Spain and Latin
America, <i>Discurso, Comunicación, Sociedad, </i>whose very
detailed plan needs to be ready soon for national evaluation, so
that we can start in September 2012. <br>
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So, I asked Celso to provisionally keep control of the site until
some of us declares her- or himself a candidate for that role. <br>
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If the international CRITICS center I am now starting to (try to)
set up ever materializes here in Barcelona, and if we are able to
get secretarial and other assistance, we might be able to play a
more active role in the management of the CRITICS netvibe, a
website, a List and other activities mentioned in the document on
the CRITICS Foundation and activities kindly already posted on the
CRITICS netvibe by Celso. <br>
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<blockquote><font face="Bookman Old Style">Incidentally this (old)
document would need another Postscript of 2010, saying that most
of the aims of the original CRITICS ideas and plans are still
relevant today, that (even tiny) CRITICS centers of a few
scholars and PhDs could and should be set up locally around the
world, each with its own website or netvibe, thus forming a
global network. Dramatically better than in 1991 (when I still
referred to sharing information with diskettes!!!), and even
better than in 2004, today the possibilities of the internet and
other new media are such that many of the earlier plans can now
much easier be realized.</font><br>
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For instance, the new CRITICS netvibe may be extended by at least
three important resources:<br>
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1. <b>Documentation of scholars in CDA/CDS, </b>each represented
by a standard (easily updatable) bio-bibliographical note, with
links to an online personal website and/or List of Publications.<br>
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2. <b>Library of CDA/CDS papers. </b>List of links to (online)
papers in PDF format on various fields and topics of
sociopolitical (critical) research in language, discourse and
communication. Each member would be able to "drop" such links on
the appropriate place of the netvibe.<br>
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3. <b>CDA/CDS Bibliography</b>. A CRITICS aim from the start. The
complete bibliography of CDA/CDS is of course much larger than
papers that are available on line, and also needs to include books
and many other references. Again, each member should be able to
add her or his references on CDA/CDS in a fixed format (e.g., APA)
to form a collective, searchable bibliography (ideally with
keywords for each reference to make searches independent of
titles). <br>
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<blockquote><small><font face="Bookman Old Style">During the last
two decades I have built up a (plain text, APA format)
personal bibliography of language, discourse, communication,
cognition, society etc. of more than 600,000+ titles (many
with keywords), with thousands of titles in CDA/CDS, and which
I use to provide instant bibliographies for students,
colleagues and journal authors (using a small search program
that I had made for my personal use). I could make this
bibliography available for public access on the CRITICS
netvibe site, but I guess a useful bibliography should be in
the format of records with various fields (Author, Title,
etc.) and a standard bibliographical program for searches.</font></small>
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<font face="Bookman Old Style">There are already many useful content
categories on the netvibe presented by Celso, and I hope that you
all will contribute -- and especially also ask your students to
get engaged, propose contents and become active to make this site
a success. The site is especially also a very useful research for
students -- especially when locally there are not CDA/CDS
specialists to supervise their research.<br>
<br>
Warm regards<br>
<br>
<br>
Teun<br>
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Teun A. van Dijk<br>
Pompeu Fabra University <br>
Dept. of Translation and Language Sciences<br>
138, Roc Boronat<br>
08018 Barcelona, Spain<br>
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:teun@discourses.org">teun@discourses.org</a><br>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.discourses.org">www.discourses.org</a><br>
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